Daniel bach and k



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DANIEL BACH AND K. KRENKEL, 0F NEV YORK, N. Y.

FOLDING BEDSTEAD.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 27,263, dated February 28, 1860.

T o all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, DANIEL BACI-1 and KASIMIR KRENKEL, both of NewYork, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new anduseful Improvement in Folding Bedsteads; and we hereby declare that thefollowing is a full and exact description of the same, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings and to the letters of reference markedthereon.

Figure I represents a part of the bed when unfolded ready for use. Fig.II represents the same when folded up.

The nature of our invention consists in the application and use of aself operating catch, for the purpose of securing the side rails intheir proper places and to hold the same fast, when the bed is unfoldedfor use.

A represents part of a foot of a bedstead to which the rail B isattached by means of the pin fn, upon which the rail is made to turn. isa catch attached on the inside of the bed post to the same, swingingeasily upon a pin, a, and made with a recess into which the end of therail B fits.

l/Vhen the bed is unfolded and put up for use, the end of the rail Bpushes the catch, C,

away until said end comes into the recess of the catch when the latterfalls by its own weight, so as embrace the end of the rail and holds thesame firm in its place. When the bed requires to be folded together thecatch, C, is pushed away clear of the end of the rail, when the bed maybe folded together in the usual way. To prevent the catch from shakingloose when the bed is moved about a small spring, cl, is provided, tokeep the same in its place.

7e do not claim a bedstead which may be folded together when not in useas such bedsteads are well known and in quite common use but What weclaim as our invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- Theapplication and-use of a self acting catch, C, to secure and hold theside rail B -in the proper place, when the bedstead is put up for use,in the manner substantially

